The Quartermaster
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That guidance either hasn't gone to the Navy or our Ech II hasn't provided us with the memo. Our software management tool has it listed as Disapproved. The only current news articles out there have the Army using the app, but not the Navy or Air Force. The latter's most recent is from 2021/ 2022 timeframe.
Maybe it is an Army / SOCOM thing? I don't know, but it isn't in DoN.
It was SOCOM, we had to switch in 20/21 timeframe, literally everything moved there and it suuuuuucked. It never caught on AF wide; my favorite part of this whole thing was going downrange and trying to figure out how we were going to get the partner force to use WICKR and the outgoing team said they didn't even try... and just used WhatsApp... on the Chinese owned network...
I haven't been operational for so long, I don't even know what WICKR is.
Must be a new gay dating app.
The Quartermaster
Verified Military
You're way ahead than this nobody with the black tab for not special forces mil.
I'm glad this has come up because it forced me to dig a little. Nerd stuff: the Navy uses Azure, virtual desktops for the masses being a new (this year) thing. The Army's cloud is AWS. The Air Force cloud is something different. Wickr is supposed to operate across the platforms.
How much IT/ computer interoperability have y'all experienced between the services? You have a CAC? Great. Can you use that for every network? Nope. Some of that is good IT management or maybe a tech limitation. Don't know, don't care but consider using this joint app across different (and competing) cloud services in an environment where there is no single logon or authentication across domains.
And each branch has its own budget for its own cloud. Installation, operations, and maintenance.
It is a Friday so only 1/3 of my peers are here, but no one's heard of Wickr. Now this all makes sense.
Good thing that 20+ years of GWOT taught us how to be Joint. At least our GAL can see email from other branches though it is usually dated. Little victories, I guess?
How much IT/ computer interoperability have y'all experienced between the services? You have a CAC? Great. Can you use that for every network? Nope. Some of that is good IT management or maybe a tech limitation. Don't know, don't care but consider using this joint app across different (and competing) cloud services in an environment where there is no single logon or authentication across domains.
And each branch has its own budget for its own cloud. Installation, operations, and maintenance.
It is a Friday so only 1/3 of my peers are here, but no one's heard of Wickr. Now this all makes sense.
Good thing that 20+ years of GWOT taught us how to be Joint. At least our GAL can see email from other branches though it is usually dated. Little victories, I guess?
I downladed WICKR and GRINDR same week, lemme tell you, WICKR was way more gay.Must be a new gay dating app.
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ThunderHorse
Verified Military
Isn't everyone on windows and using teams?
My apologies. I had bad info.
I think I'll take this opportunity to piss off and bow out.
Azure is a virtual desktop interface; it doesnt change the operating system.
This article explains it better than I can, but tldr is that Azure allows me to use my personal laptop as if I'm on a government one. Hypori on the phone does the same thing.
Florida173
SOF Support
I have been really hating Hypori.. it's nice to have access to most things on my phone, but it is about the least responsive thing ever.
The Quartermaster
Verified Military
The Quartermaster
Verified Military
I'm CAC Card and AKO old, so I will bow out like AWP as well.
ThunderHorse
Verified Military
Helpful, my only exposure to azure is as a cloud storage program as well as the backbone to ton of global tech architecture things from a sports data provider. So had no idea it did that.
Also...BYOD haha.
This isn't politics or touching grass. I pride myself on tech knowledge and I missed that exchange. I stand by my assertion that DoW's chat app guidance hasn't made it to our level*, but the tech stuff? That's my L to bear. My knowledge and research didn't get this one right and I deserve the hit.
* "Our level" meaning the guidance hasn't passed to Ech II because the services actually do some things counter to DoW directives (or maybe that latitude is allowed...I don't know), OR the memo never made it past Ech II (again, some latitude is granted or taken and ignored by higher, but we never know those limits).
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